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...news that Representative Bill Paxon (R-N.Y.) is resigning is disappointing. The Republican Party is losing a rising star to the abyss of private life, and Americans are losing a good chance to knock off Dick Armey (R-Tex.), Newt's sidekick, as majority leader...
...tsunami of cheap imports towards America, while Japan's failure to stimulate its domestic demand and absorb some of Asia's exports exacerbates the crisis. "If the trend reflected in the December U.S. trade deficit continues - and there's every reason to believe it will - the Asian crisis could knock 1 percent off our GDP and wipe out 1 million American jobs," says Van Voorst.
...already won the war and held the ticker-tape parade. And that's just the point. "There is a lot of room for disappointment," notes Tom McManus, a market strategist in Katonah, N.Y. "People have forgotten how easily things can go wrong." What if we don't quickly knock out Saddam's weapons of mass destruction? Other than a few diehard militarists, no one possesses the will to keep at it indefinitely...
Holmes, a family owned business which has owned the property in question since 1915, wants to knock down the existing building and construct a new, more expensive complex for mixed residential and commercial use. The proposed complex--composed of two different buildings--will be 120,000 square feet and 60 to 70 feet at its tallest point, according to Holmes's attorney James J. Rafferty...
...problems. Some other high-profile investors, including Loews Corp. chairman Lawrence Tisch and international investor George Soros, have big stakes in metals-mining operations. And Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been talking about either inflation or deflation at various times in the past few months. Either one could knock the stock market for a loop, and Buffett's highfliers probably would be among the hardest...